Pocket Monsters Green (ポケットモンスター緑) is a
video game for the Game Boy. It was released in Japan on February
26th,
1996.

Pocket
Monsters Green is a
role-playing game (RPG) set in a modern-day setting, much like the Mother games. In it, you
play as a young boy going around the land of Kanto trying to collect
and raise mysterious creatures known as "pockemon" (from Pocket Monsters). Together with your
party of monsters, you travel from city to city and challenge other
characters with teams of pockemon known as "Gym Leaders." After
defeating eight of these Gym Leaders, you are given access to the
prestigious Pockemon League. Along the way, you'll encounter an
evil organization known as the Rocket-Dan and must thwart their various
schemes to steal pockemon.

One of
the features that sets Pocket
Monsters apart from other games in the genre is the ability to
trade pockemon using the Game Boy link cable. There are 151
pockemon, yet all of them are not available on any one cart through
normal play. In
order to complete your bestiary, you have to trade with a player
who has a copy of Pocket Monsters Red
for the pockemon not available in your Pocket Monsters Green cart.
Players are also able to battle each other using their party of
collected pockemon. All of this gives Pocket Monsters a social element
not found in other single player RPGs.

Pockemon
exclusive toPocket Monsters Green

Pockemon
exclusive to
Pocket Monsters Red

Sand

Arbo

Sandpan

Arbok

Rokon

Nazonokusa

Kyuukon

Kusaihana

Nyasu

Rafflesia

Persian

Mankey

Madatsubomi

Okorizaru

Utsudon

Guardie

Utsubot

Windie

Boober

Strike

Kairos

Elebuu

A list of the 151 pockemon featured in the
games can be found here, while a
list of the various
attacks they can use can be found here.
An overview of the world of the Pocket
Monsters games is here,
and a list of the items used in the games can be found here.

The games have been best-sellers for Nintendo and have been adapted
into manga, a trading card game, and an animated series.

Unfortunately, there do not seem to be any plans to bring these games
to North America, but I'll be sure to update this space as soon as
there's any news of an English language release!